I was thinking and perhaps we need more than one way to get scales.

My idea was that we could be able to gather some "shed scales" from each of our Stables daily.

I'm thinking something like this:

Scales are dropped based on the number of pets in a given stable.
Number of scales each pet drops depends on the food it was given:
No Feed: 0 scale
Regular Feed - 1 scale
Premium Feed - 2 scales
Exceptional Feed - 3 scales

What do you guys think?

This would devalue the items in the scale shop; if scales are easier to get more people would be willing and able to buy the items (ig mutators and pet dyes) with scales, rather than from other players, thus damaging the gold economy even more than it is already. I don't support the making of obtaining scales easier, sorry. [Edit] Unless, of course, they also raise the prices in the scale shop so that it all evens out.

I think something like this might be interesting, as it could be made to where pets will only shed scales if they are not starving. I know there's been some discussion over how to incentive feeding stables where pets are just being kept and not used, this may be a good way to do just that (incidentally, if people had to feed their pets it might help the over all gold problem?)

That is true.. If they spend more gold on food, in order to get the scales, that could balance out nicely..

Yeah, that's why I made my idea so that you had to spend gold to feed the pets in order to get the scales. It isn't cheap to keep the pets fed, really, and I see way too many pets nowadays that aren't fed.

Besides, it would also give us a stable rate of exchange for the mutators/dyes and gold. 25 spaces in 1 tab. 25 pets x type of feed = x amount of gold to get 75 scales. Amounts of scales for the items from the scale shop are already fixed. Then you have the base rate and people aren't going to go too far above or below the rate.

Of course, people with lots of pets and stables will get more scales. But they're more likely to USE the mutators, dyes, philters for themselves, thus generating a better quality of pet overall.

Still, it isn't all that many scales. Say a player has one stable, five tabs. 5 x 25 = 125 pets. 125 x 3 (if using exceptional feed) = 375 scales per day max. It'd still take that one player 4-5 days to get a mutator without nurturing.

How bout this we just add a way to make it so one could gather scales. Since we all forum so much about about by doing something special in forums we get a scale for it. Like how Gaia gives little bits of gold for bumping, or posting. Although I would suggest something a little harder, so as to not de-value scales but yet at the same time make it so that you don't have to sit in a hatchery all day and nurture 1000 pets for 1000 scales.